🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Discokeryx xiezhi From Early Miocene Halamagai Formation, China, "round plated horn" is what happens when a giraffe and a pachycephalosaur love each other very much, lol. Its domed head provides the best head butting adaptation of any mammal known so far

Chaotic nomination! 🦖

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Pakasuchus kapilimai From Late Cretaceous Galula Formation, Tanzania, the 50cm "cat crocodile" is a notosuchian with a dog-like nose and unusual, mammal-like dentition potentially making it capable of chewing. It had long, sharp teeth at the front and molar esque ones at the back

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Ursus arctos priscus From Late Pleistocene to Holocene Eurasia, the steppe brown bear is an extinct subspecies weighing up to a ton with a more carnivorous diet. Its validity is beary controversial, with some suggesting it being indistinguishable from modern brown bears

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Bootherium bombifrons From Late Pleistocene North America, the 400kg "ox beast" was a relative of the modern muskox adapted to warmer climates (huh, usually it's the other way around, lol). It had a thicker skull with a longer snout and fused horns high on its skull

The junior novelization of Chaos Theory Season 4 is out today! Will you be checking it out? 🦖

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni From Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Kenya, "Thorbjarnarson's crocodile" was the largest ever "true" crocodile at up to 7 meters long. With a broad snout, it was capable of eating early hominins whole Art by Sobek1926

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lycosuchus vanderrieti From Middle to Late Permian Karoo Formation, South Africa, "wolf crocodile" is a genus of middle sized therocephalian known from complete skulls and a few postcranial remains. It shows double canines,likely the result of being fossilized mid tooth replacement

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lesmesodon spp. From Early to Middle Miocene Germany and France, "tooth from Messel" was a genus of weasel sized proviverrin hyaenadont. It includes 3 species; L. behnkeae, L. edingeri, and L. gunnelli. They were hypercarnivorous, feeding on early horses

Wishing everyone a great, Chaotic-in-a-good-way 2026! 🦖 🎆 Hopefully, your fireworks are less... incendiary 🔥

Thus ends 2025 in my corner of the world. A year good for paleomedia, but... interesting for the real world Here's to 2026 being better. Happy new year, everyone! 🎆 🦖

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lokotunjailurus emageritus From Late Miocene to Early Pliocene northern, southern, central, and eastern Africa, "clawed Turkana cat" is a homotherin sabre-toothed cat about as tall as a lioness but more cursorially adapted and with a large grappling dewclaw Art by Mauricio Anton

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Caviramus schesaplanensis From Late Triassic Kössen Formation, Switzerland, "hollow branch" is a small pterosaur with teeth strangely suited for mastication; fanged ones at the front of the jaw and cusped ones at the back. It was likely a generalist omnivore Artist unknown

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Tapinocephalus atherstonei From Middle Permian South Africa, "low, depressed head" is a species of 2 ton dinocephalian therapsid with a barred-shaped body, short snout, and dome shaped, pachyostotic skull used in headbutting for mates or territory Art by Farabin

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Pelagornis spp. From Late Oligocene to Early Pleistocene Europe, North, and South America, "pelagic bird" is a pseudotoothed bird related to pelicans that filled an albatross niche. One species, P. sandersi, has the longest wingspan of any bird at 6.4 meters Art by Liz Bradford

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Gnathomortis stadtmani From Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale, Colorado, "jaws of death 💀" (hell yeah!) is a genus of 10 meter long mosasaur originally considered a species of Prognathodon. Its teeth were likely hidden by gum tissue when not attacking Art by DehautNathan

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Manipulonyx reshetovi From Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation, Mongolia, "manipulating claw" is a new alvarezsaur with "hands down" some of the weirdest dino hands; two tiny fingers, dermal ossicles, and spiky osteoderms in addition to the giant clawed finger Art by @rlatkdwls on X

We found Santa Claws! (Lapworth museum)

🦌 🎅; Daily Paleo 🦌 🎅; Sinomegaceros spp. Oh deer, Rudolf really let himself go... From Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene Central and east Asia, "Chinese great horn" is a genus of prehistoric deer of up to 500kg with flat and broad branches and robust, pachyostotic mandibles Art by Rudolf Hima

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! 🎄 🎅 Have a great festive time, and beware the Krampus that lurks in the dark... ❄️

We wish everyone a very merry Christmas Eve, hopefully spent with loved ones! 🦖 🎅 Just make sure to have ADS on so Santa doesn't run into... obstacles... on his way

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Peltephilus spp. From Oligocene to Mid Miocene Argentina, the horned armadillo is a genus of xenarthran known for its head scutes that developed into horns. The upper teeth on the anterior side of the upper jaw were sharp and passed beyond the lower jaw teeth

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Sahonachelys mailakavava From Late Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Madagascar, "quick mouthed frog turtle" was a small turtle with a flat head and gracile jaws. Its enlarged hyoids and lack of teeth suggest a unique suction feeding lifestyle

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mixosaurus spp. From Middle Triassic Italy, Switzerland, and China, "mixed lizard" is a genus of icthyosaur up to 2 meters so named because it's thought to be a transitional form between earlier eel shaped icthyosaurs and later dolphin shaped ones Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social

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🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Henodus chelyops That's... flat, lol. From Late Triassic Germany and Portugal, "one tooth" is a meter long turtle-like placoderm and the first of its kind not to be found in marine deposits. It had a single tooth in each side of the mouth, the rest replaced by baleen-like barbs

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Kaatedocus siberi From Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, Wyoming, "small beam" is a relatively small diplodocid at an itty bitty 14 meters long. Its well preserved neck has been used to argue that diplodocids had dorsal spines and held their necks upright

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Europejara olcadesorum From Early Cretaceous Spain, "European tapejara" is a species of small tapejarid with a 2 meter wingspan known from a crushed skull. It shows the longest dentary crest in proportion to lower jaw of any pterosaur Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Cretalamna spp. From "Middle" Cretaceous to Eocene Africa, North and Central America, and the Near East, "Cretaceous shark" is a genus of otodontid shark known from jaw and tooth fragments. Up to 4 meters, It's considered the ancestor of the famous Megalodon

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mixotoxodon larensis From Middle to Late Pleistocene South and North America, "mixed brow tooth" is one of the last and largest toxodonts, and the only one to migrate into North America. It was a rhino sized animal with the highest estimates being up to 4 tons Art by Roman Uchytel